Pic: Sin Bozkurt
Hackney
The Double R Club , Thursday 21 March @ Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, 42-44 Pollard Row.
The R Club will offer an evening of mystery and nightmares inspired by the films of David Lynch. A darkly, surreal cocktail of “Damn fine” Cabaret, Comedy & Live Music, where “restless nights and uneasy dreams go with the territory.”
A series of absurd artists will feature in the line-up, including Jon Hicks (He’ll ‘’drag you kicking and screaming into his own unfathomable subconscious mind!’’), Red Sarah (‘’Falls faster and faster into a den of shadow and iniquity, and then bursts into fire… forever and ever’’), and Marnie Scarett (‘’Aberrant creature of unspeakable thirsts sucks at the marrow of our reality, swallows us whole!’’)
“Ever wondered what would happen if David Lynch got his weird and wonderful hands on a cabaret show? Wonder no more,” Ben Walters from Time Out London says and he’s right.
Doors open at 8 pm. Show at 8.30 pm until 1 am.
No entry after midnight.
Tickets £10, book in advance here
The Shoreditch Pub Crawl from this Thursday and every Thursday- Saturday 7.30-2.00 @The Drunken Monkey, 221 Shoreditch High Street.
An eclectic East End bars tour for new London residents who need to see with their own eyes what all the fuss about the Shoreditch nightlife really is. A chance to meet students and young professionals of different backgrounds willing to work together to kill the week’s pressure.
Misery loves company, so mingle with the trendy East London regulars- a guarantee to forget your troubles.
The crawl includes crazy people, free entry to four of East London’s best clubs and bars, savings of up to £10 per venue and -at least- 3 free shots per night.
They won’t let the hipsters hurt you.
Book tickets here
For questions don’t hesitate to contact Nico at 07981629198.
Alternatively send a mail @ nico@essor.co.uk
Amy Grimehouse presents: Grease 2 screening, Wednesday 27 March @ The Book Club, 100 Leonard Street, Shoreditch
The plot: An English student at a 1960’s American high school has to prove himself to the leader of a girls’ gang whose members can only date greasers.
‘’Amy Grimehouse is a cinema slash club night that celebrates trashy, camp, cult and transgressive moving image, marrying the film ,TV show, or documentary up with experiential activities, audience participation and generally vile behaviour. This is not a nice quiet film with popcorn.’’
19.30 until 22.30
Tickets: £8 http://amygrimehouse.eventbrite.co.uk/
Croydon
Lounger: group exhibition. Preview: 28 March @ Matthew’s Yard, 1 Matthews Yard, Croydon
Lounger brings together the work of three emerging UK based artists; Lauren Godfrey, David McLeavy and Matt Welch:
‘’Their respective practices each employ materials associated with domesticated spaces put to use as a negotiation of an engagement with art practice and design. These two categories establish a space where functionality can play a conspicuous role within their working processes, creating slippages between known materials and an informed use of space, image and form within everyday life as a historical resource. The works in this exhibition maintain a common material consensus. Working “well” together within a hypothetical lounge; an heterotopic zone where our utilitarian material signifiers are shifted into a formal silliness; softer functions – and a historical laziness; designer units. The works collectively formulate a space for the experience of our own material signification.’’
To find out more about the artists visit their websites/
Exhibition open March 30th – April 14th, 12-6pm Saturday, Sunday and by appointment @ alice@matthewsyard.com
It’s a bomb! Sunday 24 March 10pm til late @ Black Sheep Bar
Boom! An explosive Sunday night dj set for those who don’t want retire from weekend’s fun so early. Tony X will be playing rock anthems, party hits and good old-fashioned cheese late into the night…
Any bomb (including Monster) only £2 all night – pints of Carlsberg / Olde English £2 all night. Make Sundays count!
10pm til late/ £2 entrance
Lewisham
Modern Sacred Masterpieces, Saturday 23 March 7.30-9.30 @ The Big Hall, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way, New Cross
@ The Big Hall, Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way, New Cross
A concert showcasing some of the most beautiful sacred works in the contemporary repertoire by the British composer John Tavener, the Estonian Arvo Pärt and the Polish composer, Henryk Górecki.
It will feature iconic works by Pärt (who is able to create haunting and ethereal soundscape) as well as Górecki’s little masterpiece, Totus Tuus.
The choir will perform two of Tavener’s settings of William Blake poems, The Lamb and The Tyger, and the Song for Athene, written originally in memory of a friend and immortalised for many as the music played while Princess Diana’s cortege left Westminster Abbey.
Slug Couture, Saturday 23 March @ The Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road
Prepare yourself for a night of chilled vibes by Slug Couture (‘’always bringing you the finest sounds and anything but sluggish tunes’’)
This week they will introduce Chunky, one of the new signings on the legendary swamp 81 label. Making big waves currently, having moved from being the MC who vocals all your favourite sets in London along with all your YouTube rips of RinseFM, he’s now a regular fixture on the swamp dj line up and has also just released his debut EP, the self entitled ‘chunky EP’ which is getting played all over the place.
There will also be a live performance by from Boxwork B2B Cloaka- having just come back from touring a new ep in Europe.
Don’t be late: earlier in the night there will be live performances by some of the finest local bands, including The Hotelles (a rising ‘all brother’ indie guitar band from South East London) , Benjamin Yellowitz, Howl and more.
From 19.00 until 3.00
tickets here: http://slugcouture.eventbrite.com/
Tower Hamlets
Suede live, Friday 22 March @ Rough Trade East, Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane
Suede, the legendary British band of the 90s, comes back with a new record after a decade of absence. For those who grew up with their sound, this is a historical moment.
The band will present live their new record, Bloodsports, on the scene of Rough Trade East at 6.30 pm.
The allocation of online wristbands has been soldout now ofcourse, but 100x writsbands will be available upon purchase of the cd at Rough Trade until Friday afternoon. O come all ye faithful, this is the only chance to see Brett Anderson performing at your feet.
Oval arts presents: Secuum Cheung/ Tracker Δ, Wednesday 27 March @ Oval Space, 29-32 The Oval, Bethnal Green
Seecum Cheung’s work explores the link between commerce, surveillance and seduction. Focusing on the idea of the captured image as a valuable resource for companies and governments in consumer analysis, her work explores data as a form of contemporary currency. Drawing parallels between the values of gold and data, Seecum correlates a unification between the concepts of marketing consumer analysis, including our own personal exhibitionism through social networking sites, which facilitate a market of surveillance and voyeurism.
In line with the exhibition Tracker ∆ the artist is giving away a piece of work for free. Vote for your favorite print by leaving your details in the allocated boxes within the gallery. The print with the most votes will be raffled off at the end of the exhibition; winner will be announced in June.
27th March – 7th June 2013
Preview: Wednesday 27th March 6pm – 9pm
for more details/ to find out about ticket availability contact the venue at info@ovalspace.co.uk
